Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:13:09 -0700WeeblyFri, 19 Apr 2013 14:29:31 GMThttp://www.doxout.com/blog/t-mobile-macedonia-chose-doxbee-as-innovation-partnerThe reward was announced today. Five teams were selected to implement their ideas. We're glad to announce that DoxBee is one of them. The press release.To learn more about DoxBee, visit www.doxbee.com]]>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:18:01 GMThttp://www.doxout.com/blog/farewell-appser-for-google-docsWe are removing Appser for Google Docs from the App Store. From now on, you won't be able to download it anymore.

We know that some of you really loved it. We loved it, too. We needed it. But, there is only that much we can do on top of Google's app. Appser can never become a top-of-the-line product. And what's the point of working on it if it can never get there.

Therefore we decided it's in everyone best interest to cease development and remove the app from the store.

On a lighter note, we just updated Presentation Note and are working on some really cool products that will launch later this year.

It's been a while since we wrote about the progress of our project. But, that's only because we've been working hard on new products that use parts of our technology that we originally developed for the DoxOut Office Suite.

Presentation Note for iPad lets you wirelessly transfer ppt and pdf files, stores them on the iPad's drive and provides easy to use live presenting tools.This app was published in the Summer, but recently got a major update - complete redesign of the app and the code base and improved display of presentations on the iPad.

Our mission with this app is that it should help users replace PCs when they need to give a presentation for their stakeholders. Download here, and the Lite version is here.

Appser for Google Docs runs the original, web version of Google Docs on the iPad. This app is for those of you who find Google Drive too complicated, lacking features or if you just like the good, old Google Docs right on your iPad.

This was a real interesting task to tackle, especially since we didn't have access to any of Google's code. How did we do it? By adding a layer that "understands" what actions you want to take. What's especially interesting here is that we can use this technology to make other web apps work on the iPad, too, although we don't have such plans for know. Read more of how we did this here.

With this app, we only wanted to show you how we would like Google Docs (or Drive) to be in the future. Who knows, maybe if there are lots us who like this approach, Google will do something about it.

]]>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:46:06 GMThttp://www.doxout.com/blog/doxout-to-pitch-qualcomm-ventures-qprize-contestToday we're in London for the QPrize semi finals. Actually, they should be starting any moment now. Wish us luck. It's gonna be tough, but we're ready.

QPrize is an annual event organized by Qualcomm Ventures, held on Campus (that's the new Google's building in London). The winner gets some cool prizes, and great networking opportunities.

Organizing a trip to London was pretty hard given the deadlines, but we are on the spot, and can't wait for our turn.

Sixteen startups in total will present. We are in the eastern Europe group.

In the meantime, It's pretty busy here, at our HQ. Next week, we're at GigaOm's Structure Europe LaunchPad, and possibly few other places in Europe. All that, and we are working on a new version of Presentation Note - our app for presenting directly from iPad. We might have few other aces upon our sleeves, but more about that later...

Skopje, 24 September 2012 – DoxOut has been named a finalist in GigaOM’s Structure:Europe 2012 LaunchPad, a high-profile competition that recognizes Europe’s most-promising startups in cloud computing, internet infrastructure, and data. The company was among five finalists chosen for their groundbreaking technologies and business models driving the future of the cloud industry. “We are very excited to be chosen as GigaOM’s LaunchPad finalist. We can’t wait to get on stage in Amsterdam.” – said Gligor Dacevski, CEO, DoxOut. Startups less than 12 months old with innovative technologies powering cloud computing, internet infrastructure, or big data applications were eligible to apply for LaunchPad. The finalists will present their business plans on stage at Structure:Europe 2012, GigaOM’s flagship event for cloud computing, taking place 16-17 October 2012 in Amsterdam. “Cloud computing is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the digital economy,” said Stacey Higginbotham, senior writer for GigaOM and co-chair of Structure:Europe. “These LaunchPad finalists are leading the charge in cloud growth and adoption across Europe.” More details on Structure:Europe LaunchPad finalists are here. Follow Structure:Europe on Twitter (@GigaOM / #structureeurope) to stay up to date as new speakers and sessions are announced.

About GigaOM Founded in 2006, GigaOM has grown into the leading independent voice on emerging technologies and the disruption of media. The GigaOM news network’s online audience of 5.5 million monthly unique readers relies on its definitive coverage of cloud, mobile, cleantech, consumer web and media. GigaOM Pro offers the highest quality research and analysis of emerging technology markets and the companies making a difference in those sectors. GigaOM Events bring together the people innovating, shaping and defining the ongoing evolution of the technology industry.

About DoxOut Founded in 2012, DoxOut is developing a cross platform office suite integrated with cloud that works on every platform and device type including Windows 8. The application is developed in own technology based on HTML5 and own components that utilizes as much as 90% of the same code base cross platform. DoxOut is currently in the working prototype phase and the company is actively seeking for partners and investors.

]]>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:51 GMThttp://www.doxout.com/blog/why-native-development-sucks-and-html5-rocks-porting-to-windows-8Completely functional app in one hour!? Read this post by our lead developer Gorgi and learn how our team created DoxOut Presentation for Windows 8 in no time.Enjoy!

Lately, HTML5 mobile app development has received a lot of bashing all over the Internet. Most developers only quickly skim over the benefits and proceed to bash all the downsides. The conclusions they usually arrive at: HTML5 is slow, inconsistent, limited and doesn't have a native look and feel. Therefore, native development is superior.

I'm not going to go point by point to defend or debunk these claims today. Instead, I'd like to give an example of the benefits of HTML5.

Here at CreationPal, we make SportyPal - a reasonably popular mobile app that tracks your workouts. Its a native non-trivial app implemented for multiple platforms, so we do have some experience with native technologies.

When we were discussing our new product DoxOut, we concluded that the best way to go is to use HTML5. As a result of this decision, it didn't take much time to port our prototype presentation appto the new Windows 8 UI (formerly codenamed Metro)

The time needed: 1 hour.

How is that possible?

To improve experience, we have a thin native layer for each platform. If a component of the layer is not available, a default HTML5 replacement is provided that works well enough in most browsers. The rest of the code and UI is pure HTML5.

The new Windows 8 UI is all about HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. An application has the same structure as a webpage, with a main html file. What is different is that there are extra "native" libraries available in the global JavaScript namespace which you can use to access native functionality. As a result, it was simply a matter of pointing the app to the relevant HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Well, not quite.

We quickly got the following error:JavaScript runtime error: Unable to add dynamic content. A script attempted to inject dynamic content, or elements previously modified dynamically, that might be unsafe. For example, using the innerHTML property to add script or malformed HTML will generate this exception. Use the toStaticHTML method to filter dynamic content, or explicitly create elements and attributes with a method such as createElement. For more information, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=247104.The new Windows 8 UI has a strict html security model. Directly inserting potentially-unsafe HTML is not allowed, and since we are using a jQuery-based micro-templating library that does exactly that, we quickly ran into the error.

As this circumvents protection for all jQuery.fn.html calls, its not an ideal solution. However the alternative involves giving up features such as data-attributes which was unacceptable.

The only remaining modification was to add the Microsoft-specific CSS properties (such as -ms-linear-gradient) to our LESS mixin classes and $.fn.css calls

Note: jQuery 1.8 makes the last practice obsolete: the newest $.fn.css automatically transforms the property to a browser-specific version, if needed.

After this modification the entire codebase worked flawlessly.

Now imagine the time it would take to port a native app to a new platform.

Despite all the negative reputation, HTML5 remains the fastest way to develop multi-platform apps. The quick porting of our DoxOut Presentation prototype is to Windows 8 confirms that (though not exactly a fair example as Metro is already heavily HTML5-based), And with efforts such as AppJS, the number of OSes that support mixed HTML5-native development keeps growing.

It creates a difference if the listener will be interested in you or your product or they will walk away. So, sometimes this puts a lot of pressure entrepreneurs.

How do you extract the most important information about your project without saying too little?

We've had the same problem. But, recently I found this short 5 minute video that helped me form our opening sentence. So, here is what I came up with:

"My company DoxOut is developing a cross platform office suite integrated with cloud to help people who own both mobile devices and PCs, to view, edit, create and collaborate on documents, from any device they have with them at the moment with complete functionality and unified UI and UX."]]>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:32:52 GMThttp://www.doxout.com/blog/disbelief-and-what-to-do-about-itWe believe that we have something extraordinary here. Just check out the video1 and video2 we made, and you’ll see how great this concept is. I mean, only one app for all your devices. That has to be huge. But, some people don’t think so. Every time we demo it to someone, we get a reaction like:

“If this works, it will be the best app ever”.

“Well, it does work; you can see it with your own eyes. I’m not doing tricks, although the software is magical” - I say. Still, they stare at me with their eyes wide open in disbelief. “No, you must be doing some trick”, they say, “Can I take a look at it?” “Sure you can. Just try it yourself. It will be available for everyone soon.” – I replied. I don’t know why people are skeptic, but I know that we’re on the right track. And we’ll keep pushing this project even harder than before.]]>